Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
Quotes to Explore
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
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Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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Great men are never cruel without necessity.
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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
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Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
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I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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I think it's good for sports cars to be united, to be just one. I think it's good for the fans. When you have two different series, fans don't know which way to go, when you only have one I think it's good for the sport.
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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
